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Re: no ROM BASIC
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David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:05:26 -0800
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On  6 Nov 98 at 2:58, Kenneth Alan Boyd Ramsay wrote:

> To reduce cost, the manufacturers stopped putting ROM BASIC on the
> motherboard.

  IBM *may* have stopped providing it, for this reason.  Nobody else
ever *started* to provide it, because IBM wouldn't license it.

David G

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